Apple has artfully crafted a press release exonerating itself from blame for this weekend’s celebrity nude photo hack, and tsking the Internet. But it has a glaring omission that I hope doesn’t fool too many people. “We have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack [Keep reading]
Home Depot Inc. is investigating “unusual activity” and working with banking partners and law enforcement, the firm told me Tuesday. The confirmation comes after Security researcher Brian Krebs reported a credit card hacker attack on the firm. According to a post on Krebs’ website, the theft is similar to the massive hack [Keep reading]
Do you and your family live a “normal” American life on $60,000 a year? I’d love to hear from you. My story about the $100,000 annual budget for a normal family stirred up such emotion that I plan to do a series on this topic. In case you are new, [Keep reading]
Happy Labor Day! Now, can you answer my email? I’d like to use this weekend to ask a simple question. Do you think you work too hard? And does the answer lie in a 21-hour work week? Naturally, many people reflexively answer “yes” to such a question. Who doesn’t think [Keep reading]
You might recall that a few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about speculation that the Russian government might retaliate against Western sanctions by unleashing professional hackers on U.S. and European targets. Today comes news that JPMorgan and several other banks were attacked, and some are speculating a political motive. [Keep reading]
Expect plenty more bad news like today’s Dairy Queen credit card hack story. As they say, there’s plenty more where that came from. There’s something a little different about this latest spat of credit card hacks, however, and you should know about it. Brian Krebs told the world last night [Keep reading]
There’s two ways to measure how people are doing financially: How much they earn, and how much they own. The second category gets less attention, but it can be just as important. And it’s very likely that you own a lot less than you did before the Great Recession. In [Keep reading]
It seems like a simple enough question: How much money does a normal American family need to afford to be…normal? You already know what I’m about to say next: Coming up with a realistic average family budget is fraught with peril. There’s obvious geographic problems — normal in New York [Keep reading]
There’s a beautiful story in Salon about an “unskilled” high school graduate in 1965 who took a night shift job shoveling taconite in a steel mill so he could move out of his parent’s house and buy a car. Why is that a beautiful story? Because he could. As a [Keep reading]
The horrific death of journalist James Foley, amplified by his murderers’ ability to spread their act of terror via Internet video, touched off an immediate and familiar debate: Should governments and corporations ever restrict access to images of horror? Firms like Twitter made their choice immediately and did all they [Keep reading]
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